Stories
Religious rigidity in the halls of an Iraqi college: How do we escape the control of the “uncle” and the dean?
I thought that university would be the first place where I would learn how to exercise my freedom as an adult. But here I am, about to graduate, and I’m still under everyone else’s thumb: the guard at university gates, the taxi driver, the security committee, the professors, and the classmate who thinks I should wear an abaya to be properly covered up.